sweet Yonas...it's been awhile since i mentioned him here. remember the first entry i posted the day we met first back in 2010 on my first blog? and a few of the subsequent follow up posts were here and here, the latter being the story of friends who did the unimaginable and tracked him down while in Ethiopia for mission work! it's been a journey, to be sure. God has been sooo good. Yonas has felt our love and care from far, together with the support from a total of seven families here in Canada! so great! most recently Yonas and I have connected through Facebook, although communication is difficult. still, it completely warms my heart to be cooking supper and see my phone light up with "Hi" every few weeks or so....so wonderful! short messages usually~ still, it just takes a few words to somehow intersect our wildly diverse worlds ever so briefly. across continents and oceans we are able to connect for a moment. it's a gift. i hope it will only get easier in time...
here is the latest picture we received from Eyob, the man on the right who helps facilitate the sponsorship. he is certainly a young man now. he tells me he is 17 years old!
if you pray, please remember this young man in your prayers. please pray for his health, which is apparently stable at the moment, and for his future~ that he would complete school and discover his full potential in a positive way that he loves, and for his emotional and spiritual well-being~ most of all that he would know of God's great love for him, and that he would feel loved and supported by those around him, even without a forever family to call his own.
i'm also praying we will one day meet again. you never know, right??
so thankful i can literally rest knowing all of this is in God's sovereign hands, and that He loves Yonas more than we ever could....
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